Official Statistics

HM Prison and Probation Service workforce quarterly: December 2022

Staffing numbers of directly employed staff of the HM Prison and Probation Service.

Applies to England and Wales

Documents

HMPPS workforce statistics bulletin: December 2022 tables

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Recruitment Diversity Statistics: December 2022 tables

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Probation Officer Recruitment annex: December 2022

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Details

The HMPPS workforce bulletin provides statistics on staffing levels and staff inflows and outflows in England and Wales. This publication updates statistics on HMPPS staffing levels up to the end of December 2022.

The probation officer recruitment annex provides the difference between required and current staffing levels of Probation Officers, and the number of Trainee Probation Officers and other qualified staff.

The bulletin is released by the Ministry of Justice and produced in accordance with arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

Pre-release list

HMPPS workforce bulletin is produced and handled by the Ministry of Justice’s (MOJ) analytical professionals and production staff. Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons:

Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State; Minister of State for Justice (x2); Permanent Secretary; Second Permanent Secretary; Press officers (x6); Director General of Operation for Prisons and Probation; Chief People Officer; Director Strategy and Innovation; Head of Prison Workforce and Pay Policy; Deputy Director in MoJ Resourcing, Selection & Onboarding; Director HR Operations in MoJ People Group HR Operations; Deputy Director in Workforce Experience and People Insight; Policy lead in Probation Workforce Programme, Capacity and Efficiency; Deputy Director, Office of the Chief Executive; Head of Briefing and Governance, YCS; Head of Resource Planning and Governance, Probation Workforce Programme; Data & Analysis and wider production (x8).

Updates to this page

Published 16 February 2023
Last updated 22 February 2023 + show all updates
  1. Accessible tables for the Probation Officer recruitment annex have been added.

  2. First published.

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